Wel­come! It’s a beau­ti­ful week­end here on top of this moun­tain. Well, as beau­ti­ful as it gets in Novem­ber. I’m not com­plain­ing, there’s no white stuff.

Work in Progress News ~ Folks, I’ve been on a roll! I’m well over 13K in this book that I meant to be only 15K com­plete. There’s a “dead zone” between 15K and 17K as far as pub­lish­ers go. Some don’t even accept books in that range, so I’ll have to tread light­ly here. I skipped one sex scene, and I’m wrap­ping up the HEA right now, so we’ll see where it ends up. I’d love to write “the end” on this guy this week­end, but I’m sched­uled  to work at the Evil Empire, so it might not hap­pen. Soon, though!

Indus­try News ~ It looks like Japan’s biggest inter­net retail­er pur­chased the  Kobo.  Since Rakuten already owns its own eread­er, the Pana­son­ic Raboo, this acqui­si­tion should make Rakuten one of the biggest play­ers in the ebook indus­try. They’re also open­ing up the Kobo to accept self-pub­lish­ers like Ama­zon’s KDP pro­gram.  Great news!

Search Term of the week aka How Peo­ple Found My Web­sites ~ Some­one found Alan­na’s site by search­ing for “alan­na kook­blog”. Should I be offend­ed? Naw…kook is good, right?

What I’€™m read­ing ~ Haven’t had much time to read, so I picked up one of my old favorites. Some­times that’s just what I need to destress. It’s like putting on my favorite fuzzy slip­pers. Sweet Anger by San­dra Brown, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 1999 under one of her pen names.  This is just a clas­sic romance. The hero falls for her first, and takes his time win­ning her swoon. The ten­sion between these two is pal­pa­ble. They real­ly are at odds most of the book. My first copy of the book had the cov­er to the right. I’d read it so much I had to tape the spine togeth­er. Recent­ly on Twit­ter, I won (yes! Real­ly!) a new copy of Sweet Anger from San­dra, and I got her auto­graph! I’m such a fangirl.

Hero Quote ~ From the WiP I’m about to fin­ish. Still unti­tled, labeled as Grant:

“Last chance. I’m about to kiss you. This’ll change everything.”

Favorite Song of the Week ~ An oldie, but one that still touch­es me. This one by Sele­na, released mere months after the singer’s murder.

Beau­ti­ful. I love her voice.

That’s it for me this week. Have a great one!